Ravachol was executed at Montbrison on Monday morning. His love
of melodramatic display was exhibited in his last moments. As he was dressing to go to the guillotine, he kept singing a song, which had for its refrain, " To be happy, hang the landlords and cut the priests in two ;" and this he sang in the prison-van and at the foot of the scaffold. " When the assistants took hold of him, he turned round and cried out, I have something to say, citizens,' but he was overpowered, and held fast by the ears. In this horrible position he still had strength enough to cry, 6 Vive la—' before the knife dropped." In truth, Ravachol was an ordinary criminal of the half-crazy type, who had in his craziness and hate caught up a few Anarchist catch-words, and not at all the revolu- tionary bogey into which the Parisian bourgeoisie exalted him. He cared no more for the suffering people than does. Bill Sikes.
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